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title: "Viewed as an invasion" claim: "Contact after the First Fleet was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion." caption: "Year 4 essential knowledge. The word is invasion. The contest is in Year 9." status: published example: false published: 2026-08-16T11:01:00+10:00 person: ACARA claimType: speech year: 2022 loudness: 8 tags: [crt, acara, curriculum, invasion, first-nations, education, history, "2022"] source: url: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/content/dam/en/curriculum/ac-version-9/downloads/humanities-and-social-sciences/hass-f-6/humanities-and-social-sciences-hass-f-6-scope-and-sequence-v9.docx date: "2022-04-01" publisher: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority title: "HASS F–6 scope and sequence — Australian Curriculum v9" quote: "the effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion" evidence: path: 2022/viewed-as-an-invasion/source.md kind: note captured: "2026-08-16"

ACARA Version 9, Year 4 History, code AC9HS4K04 — a content description, which the Authority treats as essential knowledge. Students learn the effects of contact after the First Fleet “and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion.” SMH, 29 April 2021 put the draft on the front of the fight. The word survived into the live curriculum.

This card files that word as essential knowledge. It does not file “nobody was dispossessed” and it does not file “Cook invented Australia.”

What did have a receipt:

  • The same curriculum, later years, asks students to discuss why invasion, colonisation and settlement remain contested. Year 4 does not. Year 4 states the view as the thing to be taught.
  • The Conversation, after the Senate CRT vote: teaching how First Nations people “experienced colonisation” is “not necessarily a direct influence of critical race theory.” The content description does not say “some people say.” It says “how this was viewed… as an invasion.”
  • The IPA named the HASS curriculum’s “undertones of Critical Race Theory.” The official file is the meter. Open AC9HS4K04.

Grammar: was viewed as. Logic: a perspective taught as essential knowledge is a slogan. Rhetoric: invasion.